One of the most urban nations on the planet has shown exceptional results!
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| Sweden had had only 21 deaths since the beginning of July |
There can be no question here. Sweden kicked most everyone's ass with Covid and they never suffered the economic pain that most of the world did. As it stands, they have one of the lowest current death rates in the world, currently average only 1 death every other day since the begging of July. Compare that to the rest of Europe (their neighbors) and this number is truly remarkable. A quick comparison to two countries with approximately 10 million in population (Portugal and Greece) shows that those two had 1134 deaths between the two of them, compared to 21 for Sweden.
So how to they compare with the United States who have been following Dr Fauci?
For comparison - deaths since beginning of July?
- Sweden (Pop 10 million) - 21 deaths
- Illinois (Pop 12.6 million) - 549 deaths
- Ohio (Pop 11.7 million) - 776 deaths
- Georgia (Pop 10,6 million) - 362 deaths
- North Carolina (Pop 10.5 million) - 630 deaths
- Michigan (Pop 10 million) - 394 deaths
- New Jersey (Pop 8.9 million) - 282 deaths
This turns out to be 46.5 deaths per million since beginning of July vs only 2.1 for Sweden. In other words state of similar size here are seeing approximately 22 times the amount of deaths. In other words, for every Swede who has died from Covid per capita in Sweden. 22 Americans in similar size states have died. Pretty sad.
How about other countries in Scandinavia?
- Denmark (Population 5.8 million) - 29 deaths
- Norway (Population 5.5 million) - 17 deaths
- Finland (Population 5.4 million) - 35 deaths
So currently those other Scandinavian countries are currently averaging 4.85 deaths per million since the beginning of July versus 2.1 per million for Sweden. So even comparing them to the rest of Scandinavia, they are seeing less than half the deaths.
No matter how you add it up. Sweden is doing better today than almost anyone else in the entire world, and they never had to destroy their economy to do so! There can be no argument. Sweden did it right!
You can check my work at WorldOMeter if you so choose!
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It seems to me this is a well considered article on Sweden not doing so well regarding the pandemic, with plenty of facts and figures to back it up.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-strategy-failed-higher-death-rate-2021-8
Scott roughly 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden have been diagnosed with COVID-19,
Roughly 11%
The United States is approximately 9%
As usual you misrepresent the numbers to fit your opinion on politics.
The United States is doing better than Sweden.
The real reason why Sweden has a lower death rate is because they have universal health care and they have very little poverty.
But as usual...
Assisted living facility old man.
Plus, Sweden's economy still shrank 8.6% from April to June of last year — its largest quarterly fall in at least 40 years. By comparison, Denmark's economy shrank 7.4% during that time, Norway's 5.1%, and Finland's just 3.2%. (None of these economies shrank by more than 4% over the course of 2020, though.)
I know how to trigger you
Aria Bendix is a Senior Reporter at Insider, covering urban and environmental science.
She writes about the environment (nuclear energy, climate disasters, environmental toxins), urban inequality (housing, homelessness, basic income), and agricultural technology (water shortages and eliminating food waste).
An environmental writer... and a guy who didn't go to college and needs assistance to live...
Arguing with a math and statistics college graduate who analyses numbers and troubleshoots problems for a living?
Btw.. the United State as 1935 people dead per million vs Sweden having 1438 and ours is rising daily by how much, Roger????
Theirs is rising by a half a death a day!
And no... Those numbers are wrong!
The United States has 38,504,214 cases which is 11.5% of our 333,304,303 population
Sweden has 1,116.584 cases which is 10.9% of of their population
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Your "environmental writer" doesn't even have the simple numbers correct.
Not that you would have a clue how to fact check something. Perhaps you can get one of the nurses to "assist" you?
I knew you would say that.
More important is
A resistance movement against the Taliban is emerging across Afghanistan.
Anti-Taliban fighters reportedly recaptured territory from the insurgents in the province of Baghlan.
The former vice-president and the son of a mujahideen hero are also leading a resistance movement in Panjshir Valley.
See more stories on Insider's business page .
Resistance fighters in Afghanistan have reportedly recaptured territory from the Taliban on Friday and killed dozens of militants as pockets of armed resistance emerge across the country.
On Friday, former Afghan government official General Bismillah Mohammadi tweeted that fighters had taken back control of three districts in the northeastern Baghlan province: Hesar Bridge, Deh Salah, and Beno.
https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0olocp_0bYrCRgk00
Map showing Baghlan province in Afghanistan.
Google Maps
"The resistance is alive," he wrote on Twitter.
Videos and images from the province showed Afghan fighters removing the Taliban's white flag and replacing it with Afghanistan's tricolor one.
Biden should authorize air support.
I actually did the math from the website numbers. For the rates in the United States.
Ch said:
The United States has 38,504,214 cases which is 11.5% of our 333,304,303 population
Sweden has 1,116.584 cases which is 10.9% of of their population
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I saY:
If those figures are correct, Sweden is now right up there near the USA percentage, and ours has been one of the worst in the world.
He chose to use mathematics to fit his thoughts..
It's nothing unusual for him.
The Swedes themselves are lamenting the fact that their not taking stronger steps has put them in worse shape than their Nordic neighbors, and no amount of dancing about can hide that.
See the excellent article Honest Pilgrim posted at the beginning of this thread.
But this neewsbreak is more important.
We didn't know when they started planning...
“The nation’s top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early on April 24 for a secret meeting to plan the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It was two weeks after President Biden had announced the exit over the objection of his generals, but now they were carrying out his orders,” the New York Times reports.
“Four months later, the plan is in shambles as Mr. Biden struggles to explain how a withdrawal most Americans supported went so badly wrong in its execution.”
“Interviews with key participants in the last days of the war show a series of misjudgments and the failure of Mr. Biden’s calculation that pulling out American troops — prioritizing their safety before evacuating American citizens and Afghan allies — would result in an orderly withdrawal.”
This story destroyed the woke bullshit.
His Generals opposed him.
The Buck Stops There.
I actually did the math from the website numbers. For the rates in the United States.
Well then you did them wrong!
Perhaps you should have asked for assistance???
If those figures are correct, Sweden is now right up there near the USA percentage, and ours has been one of the worst in the world.
Wow Reverend.
When you don't bother to read a blog post.
Please don't make comments on it.
Perhaps between the two of you, an environmental writer, and some "assistance" you could put together a cohesive argument!
I'm here voluntarily. I'm not having any mental issues. This is a temporary process. In fact I had PTSD symptoms and I admitted problems. I almost fell off the wagon but I didn't! You have no idea how difficult it was to go through three near death experiences. But I came out the other side!
Most of the people here have serious problems. Sometimes just age related problems. It's very difficult to see people who have alzheimers symptoms including rational behavior but then two minutes later they are irrational.
I wouldn't work here. You witnessed it with your mother.
I dress myself and shower and enjoy going to the gym! Because I'm not locked down like your mother went through.
A lovely woman who was normal most of the time, but in just a month or so she has to be escorted to eat meals.
This is not a nursing home, non or the people are registered nurses.
I'm not going into detail about my near future.
But quit acting irrationally and again angry with me when you lose the argument.
C.H. Truth said...
Perhaps between the two of you, an environmental writer, and some "assistance" you could put together a cohesive argument!
You don't "honestly" think so do you CHT ?
It would be their first !!!
And boy do they think they are clever
"honest"
ROFLMFAO!!!
James and I need assistance!
He is the one who needs help.
Roger Amick said...
This is not a nursing home, non or the people are registered nurses.
I'm not going into detail about my near future.
But quit acting irrationally and again angry with me when you lose the argument.
roger as long as I've been here I've never seen CHT lose an argument with you.
But I've often seen you claim to have "won"
And as your word salad proves you aren't even capable of putting together a cogent thought.
So face reality for once.
Radio Host Who Mocked Vaccines Dies of COVID-19
August 21, 2021 at 9:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments
Conservative radio host Phil Valentine, who derided vaccines and spread misinformation about the coronavirus, has died of COVID-19, the Daily Beast reports.
Most Popular Facebook Post Cast Doubt on Vaccine
August 21, 2021 at 9:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
“Facebook said Saturday evening that an article raising concerns that the coronavirus vaccine could lead to death was the top performing U.S. link on its platform from January through March of this year, acknowledging the widespread reach of such material for the first time,” the Washington Post reports.
“It also said another site that pushed covid-19 misinformation was also among the top 20 most visited pages on the platform.”
https://welovetrump.com/2021/08/21/president-trump-trolls-the-woke-general-milley-with-new-press-release-will-he-resign-soon/
When Sweden opted for a no-lockdown strategy in March 2020, scientists were still sorting out how deadly and contagious the virus was. But already, according to email exchanges published by freelance journalist Emanuel Karlsten and the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Tegnell was considering allowing the virus to infect young, healthy people as a means of increasing immunity in the population.
Hanson said she was "absolutely disgusted" by Tegnell's approach because it presumed knowledge that scientists didn't have at the time.
"Is he God, or even above?" she said. "That's what was terrible with the Swedish approach: the supremacy."
In a paper published in September 2020, philosophers Mirko Farina and Andrea Lavazza argued that many lives could have been saved if Swedish health authorities had followed the strategy of their Nordic neighbors.
"On paper they're all good scientists, but de facto in practice, most of them end up missing some basic human values," Farina told Insider.
Their paper also argued that Sweden's low density and small population - combined with residents' trust in national authorities - likely prevented a deadlier outcome. If a denser, more populous country like Italy were to adopt Sweden's strategy, they wrote, it would "likely result in a massacre."
Sweden didn't fare much better economically than its neighbors
Store manager Domenica Gerlach works in the Lifvs unmanned supermarket store in Veckholm, a village of a few hundred people, on May 6, 2021. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
Farina said one benefit of Sweden's approach, however, may have been less stress, anxiety, or depression among its residents.
The latest World Happiness Report showed that Sweden remained one of the happiest countries in the world in 2020, based on how residents rated their quality of life and reported experiencing positive or negative emotions. But the report also found that prioritizing an open economy wasn't conducive to overall happiness.
"Driving community transmission to zero and keeping it there has been better for all the pillars supporting happy lives: good health, good jobs, and a society where people can connect easily with each other in mutual trust and support," the authors wrote.
Plus, Sweden's economy still shrank 8.6% from April to June of last year - its largest quarterly fall in at least 40 years. By comparison, Denmark's economy shrank 7.4% during that time, Norway's 5.1%, and Finland's just 3.2%. (None of these economies shrank by more than 4% over the course of 2020, though.)
Sweden's unemployment rate also rose from 6.6% in March 2020 to 9.5% in March 2021. Norway, Denmark, and Finland all saw unemployment rise by smaller margins: around one percentage point, on average.
"We live in highly interrelated world," Farina said. "If something major strikes, it's going to be affecting everyone everywhere, irrespective of the national measures that you take."
Swedish scientists lamented their country's approach
A resident at a nursing home in Gothenburg, Sweden gets a COVID-19 vaccine on January 7, 2021. Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images
Scientists called for changes to Sweden's strategy as early as April 2020. In an open letter that month, more than 2,000 experts criticized the government's decision not to lock down. Two months later, 23 Swedish doctors and researchers publicly questioned the nation's laissez-faire mask policy.
Eventually, after Sweden's daily COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and death skyrocketed from October to December, the country closed non-essential public spaces, such as gyms, pools and libraries, and recommend masks during rush hour on public transport.
"Countries that had mandatory restrictions have done better than us," Lars Calmfors, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told the Wall Street Journal in December.
"We like to think of ourselves as being very rational and pragmatic," he added. "I can't recognize my country anymore."
Hanson, too, lamented the fact that Swedish authorities failed to course-correct sooner.
"Some people saw this tsunami coming," she said. "So why didn't we run?"
Don't listen to Scott Johnson MD Powerline for medical advice..
The future of the GOP isn't legislating. It's shitposting
By Rafi Schwartz
It's hardly a groundbreaking proposition to say that after four years of Donald Trump in the White House, the Republican Party of 2021 is less an institution interested in actual legislating than it is a collection of loosely affiliated neo-fascists and enablers who have come to understand a fundamental truth of American politics in the 21st century: There are huge swaths of the country who couldn't care less about laws and Congress and "results." They want a sense of self-affirming superiority. They want mean-spirited partisan blood. They want, to put it plainly, politicians who shitpost.
He's not going on vacation or playing golf and Twitter tirading like Trump did.
Biden to Compel Airlines to Speed Evacuation
August 21, 2021 at 11:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“The Pentagon is moving toward compelling major American airlines to help transport tens of thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan, as the military struggles to meet the demand from Afghans seeking to leave Kabul, the capital, after the Taliban took control,” the New York Times reports,
Wall Street Journal: “The White House is expected to consider activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, or CRAF, created in 1952 in the wake of the post-World War II Berlin Airlift, to provide nearly 20 commercial jets from up to five airlines to augment U.S. military efforts to transport Afghan evacuees from bases in the region.”
Biden to Address Nation Again on Afghanistan
August 21, 2021 at 11:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“President Biden is scheduled to address the nation Sunday afternoon to provide updates on the administration’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, as pressure continues to mount for his security team to safely transport thousands of Americans and Afghan allies amid growing security threats,” The Hill reports.
The negroes are responsible for the covid-19 pandemic crisis!
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said unvaccinated African Americans — not lax coronavirus precautions in states like his — are responsible for the surge in Covid-19 cases in his state.
"The Covid is spreading, particularly most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that," Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview Thursday night. "Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. Last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties, so it's up to the Democrats to get ... as many people vaccinated."
Texas Gov. Abbott in isolation after testing Covid positive
Ingraham had asked Patrick, who has previously blamed undocumented immigrants for the rise in cases, to respond to charges that his and Gov. Greg Abbott's policies are to blame for the spike that has over 12,000 Texans hospitalized.
Send them back to Africa and Mexico
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Check your own fucking work Lil Schitty!!!!!!! You also dissed Iceland as a failure.....Too funny if you ask me!!!!!
Biden should authorize air support.
There is no airbase close enough to provide close air support. Another indictment on the abandonment of Bagram air base.
There is also the thorny problem of identifying friendles vs the Taliban.
Roger...
Biden's fall in the polling and his evaporation of public confidence has nothing to do with the "decision" to leave Afghanistan.
It's a combination of the complete and total incompetence he and his team has shown in executing the withdrawal and his apparently lack of realization that they did anything wrong.
Anyone involved in this should be shitcanned. If General Woke still has a job when this is over, then it's clear that neither Biden or his Administration is the slightest bit interested in having competent leaders.
Why should the country support incompetence Roger?
Is that the new Liberalism? You have the right beliefs but when push comes to shove and something needs to get done.... you cannot find your own ass with both hands and a map?
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